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The responsive environment : design, aesthetics, and the human in the 1970s / Larry D. Busbea.

By: Busbea, LarryMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2019] Description: xxvi, 285 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN: 9781517907099; 9781517907105Subject(s): Environment (Aesthetics) | Design -- Human factors | Design -- History -- 20th centuryLOC classification: BH301.E58 | B87 2019
Contents:
Invisible Environments -- Pattern Watchers -- Responsive Environments -- Soft Control Material -- Cybertecture -- Arcoconsciousness.
Summary: "In The Responsive Environment, Larry D. Busbea takes up this concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring novel models of environmental perception, patterning, and control as developed by Gregory Bateson, Edward T. Hall, Wolf Hilbertz, Gy�orgy Kepes, Marshall McLuhan, Nicholas Negroponte, Paolo Soleri, and others, he shows how living space was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input from its newly sensitized inhabitants"-- Provided by publisher.
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"In The Responsive Environment, Larry D. Busbea takes up this concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring novel models of environmental perception, patterning, and control as developed by Gregory Bateson, Edward T. Hall, Wolf Hilbertz, Gy�orgy Kepes, Marshall McLuhan, Nicholas Negroponte, Paolo Soleri, and others, he shows how living space was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input from its newly sensitized inhabitants"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-278) and index.

Invisible Environments -- Pattern Watchers -- Responsive Environments -- Soft Control Material -- Cybertecture -- Arcoconsciousness.

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